Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-02
CARING FOR MRS. LOGAN.
NEARLY $4,000 ALREADY ON
THE SUBSCRIPTION LISTS.

Chicago Editor Sends the Bereavfs q
Lady $4,000 rs the Result of the First
Days subscriptions to a Fund Witch
Is to re Given to Her rDirectly-Tendtr
Messages of sympathy.
WAsHGNGToN, Jan. Mrs. Logan re-
ceiyed to-day from William Penn Nix n.
manager OF The Chicago Inter-Ocean, So
800, which is the result OF the first DAVIS
subscription in Chicago. The checks
were all made payable to Mrs. Logan's
own order, it being the wish Of the sub.
scribers that the money should not be
placed in trust.
Capt. George K. Lemon, of this city, has
received the following additional sub-
scriptions to the fund for Mrs. Logan:
Judge Henry Hilton, OF New Yolk, 81, 900;
Whitelaw Reid, ID. o. fnls and G. 7.
Huntington, of sNew YORK., 81 ,000 each;C.
L. Mcgee, OF Pittsburg, $500; John A,
King, of New York, 800, making a total
of about $4,000.
TENDER MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY.
Indescribably tender are the sentiments
| which have come to Mrs. Logan in these
! first tagging hours OF her widowhood. and
which are stillcoming In, notes aud lei
ters from personal friends OF her husband
and herself in all walks OF lite and from
all parts Of the land. These have been
kept under her personal guardianshu.
her first thought being that only in her
own stricken heart and in those of her
children could such words find apprecin.
| tion. Now, however, when she has
learned how fully her sorrow IS shared by
all the nation, she has listened to the
counsel OF her family and nearest
| friends and has surrendered them to be
gathered with thousands of kilograms
brieIer but not less sympathetic into
memorial volume. witness of the fama
and honor accorded 10 her husband by
the public as well as the love and esteem
with which he filled the hearts OF those
! who knew him best. These letters are
| some hundreds In number,
| FROM ALL SOURCES.
They come from churches, societies ard
ministers, from banking associations and.
bankers, Grand Army posts and old
soldiers, from law associations, law firms
and lawyers. Widows, through the bond
OF their own sufferings, claim right 20
share hers, and wives write that none
but they can know how bitter IS her sor.
row. Statesmen, generals and diplomats,
dropping the formalties of their custo-
mary utterance, SPEAK IN the same sen
tence OF their own and the count y's loss; I;
and longtime acquaintances describe
| last Visits or ever To be remembered Oc.
currences in which the dead bore a part.
Many are upon dainty sheets bearing
| mOnOgrams ia gilt and color OF cultur, q
writer's. md more are the homelier effu-
sions OF hum Dler friends who hlled so
large a space in the dead Generals q
| heart.
THE CHIvALRoUs SOUTH.
But throughout the series there H.
| breathed the same striving in some wa
TO lit for the moment portion OF ibe bur-
den which weighs upon the widowed
! heart. Among those worthy of special
note is the following:
HEADo'Rs II. Il. LEE CAMP No. !
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
| RICHMOND, VA. Dee. ~, 1885.
| DEAR MADAME-In this sad hour you haya
| the hearty sympathy OF those who in years
| ago battled wit 0their might Hgain-t the gal
| iant older no|no more. but whose memory
| will live with ug hecause OF the kindly heart
| and QQen hand W hich rompted generous aid
| OEiX1 pleas comrades IN their need. Your
l u ent 8srvant
<3 k2h DpSflPHY, Commander.
pyZER. Adtutant.